Simon Renger simonrenger

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

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	using BovineLabs.Entities.Systems;
	using Unity.Burst;
	using Unity.Entities;
	using Unity.Jobs;
	using Unity.Collections;
	using Unity.Physics;
	using Unity.Physics.Systems;
	using UnityEngine;

	[UpdateAfter(typeof(BuildPhysicsWorld)), UpdateBefore(typeof(EndFramePhysicsSystem))]

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# PARAMETERS
	# ----------
	# PHP
	# ---
	PHP_TIMEZONE="UTC"
	PHP_DIRECTORY="/etc/php5ts"